TSMC - Synopsys Collaboration

Collaborate to Innovate

TSMC, a leading semiconductor foundry providing the industry's leading process technology and a large portfolio of process-proven library, IP, design tools and reference flows, and Synopsys, the technology leader for complex IC design, have teamed together to drive solution for the next generation design challenges from 65nm to 7nm FinFET.

Synopsys has a long-standing collaboration with TSMC and a common commitment to provide designers with the best IP, tools, design flows, and process technologies. Our work with TSMC helps ensure that the Synopsys design platforms provide designers a smooth and efficient path to TSMC technology. Additionally, the inclusion of TSMC's standard cell, IO, and memory libraries, with the complex blocks already available from Synopsys, helps ensure consistency and improves the overall quality and value of the complete set of products to allow design of today's complex SOCs.

Customer Benefits

With the evolution of process technologies, TSMC and Synopsys have anticipated the design challenges for each new process technology generation and have identified new design implementation issues. To help designers work within increasing technical constraints and stricter product requirements, we pay special attention to the following new technical issues: